Comments on: Painter of Blight

By: savannah

savannah — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:31:50 +0000

good article from the new yorker. i laughed at a few parts, especially when he explains his opinion about himself.
“Yes, irrelevant to the little subculture, this microculture, of modern art. But here’s the point: My art is relevant because it’s relevant to ten million people. That makes me the most relevant artist in this culture, not the least. Because I’m relevant to real people.”

i never liked kinkade’s paintings, and the fact that he is so bombastic is sort of satisfying.

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Unusual Life » Land o’ the Hobbits — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:59:58 +0000

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By: Marlow

Marlow — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:08:28 +0000

That’s a great article. Thanks for sharing that… !

By: Karen Anderson

Karen Anderson — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:28:09 +0000

The most searing hatchet job on Kinkade — taking him on from an artistic, rather than a celebrity, viewpoint — was “Art for Everybody” by Susan Orlean in The New Yorker (2001). She writes “it’s hard to distinguish one Kinkade from the next, because their effect is so unvarying — smooth and warm and romantic, not quite fantastical but not quite real, more of a wishful and inaccurate rendering of what the world looks like, as if painted by someone who hadn’t been outside in a long time.”

The article is on Orlean’s website: http://www.susanorlean.com/articles/art_for_everybody.html